Abstract
Introduction: Soccer is the sport with the highest risk of muscle injury for players. Eccentric exercise is fundamental for reducing injury rates and isoinertial technology devices cause an increase in eccentric demands after a concentric contraction.Objective: To identify the use of isoinertial technology in the fields of physical activity and sports for rehabilitation and prevention of muscle injuries reported in scientific literature.Materials and methods: A search of scientific papers in PubMed, Google Scholar, EMBASE and Science Direct data base was performed by using the following MeSH medical terms and search equations: [isoinertial AND technology AND flywheels] and [free weight AND sport AND humans AND soccer].Results: 23 references, classified into three approaches, were selected: isoinertial technology for rehabilitation, fitness and injury prevention. The use of this technology is fundamental due to the increase of the eccentric demand in muscle groups.Conclusions: Isoinertial technology is a useful tool for treating and preventing injuries, as well as for the development of physical qualities. However, it is necessary to work on protocols that allow unifying its usage parameters so that it can be included in prevention programs.
Highlights
Soccer is the sport with the highest risk of muscle injury for players
It is necessary to work on protocols that allow unifying its usage parameters so that it can be included in prevention programs
The 23 references based on three approaches were distributed as follows: isoinertial technology rehabilitation, isoinertial technology in fitness and isoinertial technology in injury prevention (Table 1)
Summary
Compared to other team sports, soccer has the highest risk of injury; 70% of them are located in the lower extremities and muscle injuries are the most frequent [1]. Due to the shortage of literature on this type of injury, little is known about risk factors, time lost or recurrence rates [5] These injuries are a serious danger to athletes because they cause long absences from training and competitions, affect their quality of life and generate enormous costs for teams and players [2]. Isoinertial technology devices become important tools for preventing injuries by allowing the increase of demands of eccentric action after a concentric action because of the inertial load caused during the return movement These machines are isoinertial trends in the field of strength training [25], they are not used frequently in injury prevention programs and have little scientific evidence proven in research. Both training systems are necessary and complementary to completely cover the spectrum of force-velocity [27]
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